so many white people have an ingrained fear of that word decades of black dudes have gone to jail assaulting people to create that sense of fear now when a white dude uses the word nigger you can see the look of tension on his face as he expects the consequences of the race gods to bring a battle to his doorstep his mere utterance triggers his adrenaline meanwhile the black dude is confused wondering if hes now socially obligated to attack somebody even though hes a middle class black dude at the cheesecake factory whos never attacked anyone in his entire life our cultural fear of the word nigger is the most awesome and fascinating example of verbal terrorism